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zapppsr
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9 years ago
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App Workspace vs App Itself

Hi guys:   I'm starting to use Apps and App Workspace in Power BI. They are separate things but are the same, right?     My problem is the following:   When you create an App (Base...
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  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    v-sihou-msft
    9 years ago

    zapppsr

     

    For App, you can regard it like a content pack at entire app workspace (which is called "Group" workspace earlier) level. When you republish your .pbix, the dataset will be updated into workspace. But it you have layout change in report, you have to update the App, like you need to update the content pack before.

     

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    Frede
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    7 years ago

    The blog at RADACAD explains things very well. The biggest problem I see with App and App Workspaces is that they share the same dataset and are not isolated like the report and dashboard content which require that you update the app to publish the changes. If you remove a measure or similar in the dataset or change the structure this will apply to your app once that model is published to the app workspace, regardless if you update the app or not. It really cannot work in any other way but it not totally obvious. In that case you would need to upload the content to another app workspace to keep things isolated and then you have duplicate content between workspaces.